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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Nov 15, 2009 1:06 UTC (Sun) by yuhong (guest, #57183)
In reply to: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames by nix
Parent article: Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

"ksh was too buggy (thanks, Linux, for pdksh, with its broken
propagation of variables out of loops-with-redirection)"
Was ksh93 tried?


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Wheeler: Fixing Unix/Linux/POSIX Filenames

Posted Nov 15, 2009 13:15 UTC (Sun) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

zsh93 was too sodding hard to require because building it was a nightmare.
At the time it wasn't free enough either.

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